The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
William FaulknerLet the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.
William FaulknerI took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie
William FaulknerTo live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
William FaulknerHe [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and compassion and sacrifice. See Poets & Writers
William Faulkner